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Global Status of Commercialized Crops Improved Through Genetic Engineering (GM Crops) in 2004

During the period from 1996 to 2004, the global area of GM crops increased more than 47 fold, from 1.7 to 81.0 million hectares. It continued to grow in 2004 at a substantial rate of 20% (compared with 15% in 2003), which is the second highest increase on record. In 2004, GM crops were grown on 5% of all global cultivable cropland by 8.25 million farmers in 17 countries. There were fourteen countries growing 50, 000 hectares or more of GM crops: (in order of hectarage) USA, Argentina, Canada, Brazil, China, Paraguay, India, South Africa, Uruguay, Australia, Romania, Mexico, Spain and the Philippines. The principal GM crops in 2004 were soybean occupying 48 million has. (56% of global soybean area), followed by cotton at 9 million has. (28%), canola at 4.4 million has. (19%), and maize at 2.7 million has. (14%). During the nine-year period, herbicide tolerance has consistently been the dominant trait with Bt insect resistance second. In 2004, herbicide tolerance, deployed in soybean, maize, canola and cotton, occupied 72% or 58.6 million hectares of the global GM area, with Bt crops planted on 15.6 million hectares (19%). In 2004 the EU Commission approved 17 maize varieties, with insect resistance conferred by MON810, making it the first GM crop to be approved for planting in all 25 EU countries.

GM crop; MON810

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